This Palin announcement is one of the more rambling disconnected speeches I’ve heard in awhile.
The dominionists political hope, may make a Presidential run in 2012.
Polycarp
Right Wing Watch has an interesting analysis of a new US political coalition calling itself The Freedom Federation.
Look at the list: Morning Star Ministries and increasingly politically active Teen Mania.
I linked to the Canadian site; while it looks like just another razzle dazzle youth ministry to attract teens, it is not.
Think Jesus Camp for an older crowd and the militant Joel’s Army imported culture war teaching of the political right. I’ve written about Teen Mania, Aquire the Fire before, this year they are putting on one Canadian show in Hamilton.
A few weeks ago a Kentucky Pentecostal church made news for a church event where people got to bring their guns and friends with guns. Across town other churches got together for a gun free event.
Apparently about 200 showed up at the pentecostal service. The insurance company wasn’t impressed and has notified the minister the church insurance policy will not be renewed.
PJ Miller
What happens when you put a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?
Turkish television station Kanal T hopes the answer is a ratings success as it prepares to launch a gameshow where spiritual guides from the four faiths will seek to convert a group of non-believers.
The prize for converts will be a pilgrimage to a holy site of their chosen religion — Mecca for Muslims, the Vatican for Christians, Jerusalem for Jews and Tibet for Buddhists.
Guess who has the sense to refuse to participate in Penitents Compete? Not the Christians.
Saskatchewan is looking at legislation that will permit it’s marriage commissioners to opt out of performing same sex ceremonies while providing for the couple by bringing in an employee who doesn’t object to doing their job.
There are two forms of the proposed legislation, a religious freedom of conscience opt out and an exempt (grandfathered clause) for commissioners hired pre-2004. Saskatchewan isn’t a hot bed of civil marriage, there were 83 same sex marriages performed in the province in 2004. PEI is the only province or territory with a conscience clause for commissioners. Of the 300 commissioners in Saskatchewan in 2004, 10 resigned. According to Stats Can there were 4,977 marriages in the province in 2003.
Thanks for the Link, Bene. What an amazing day yesterday.
Your post was concise, and I appreciated the clear dominionist and nationalist ties you pointed out.
Ms. Palin has 23 days to go before handing over the job to the Lt. Gov., anything could happen.:^)
Have a great holiday weekend.
That Freedom Federation is far more political than it is spiritual. Quite a few charismatic heavyweights like Todd Bentley’s buddy Rick Joyner and Strang Communications (Charisma publisher) are on board, but a lot of non-charismatics and even Catholic.org are in the mix, along with some long-standing paleocons like the Eagle Forum of Phyllis Schlaffly as well as the LeHay’s Concerned Women for America.
Thus, the manifesto is more conservative than it is Christian; in fact, it is so political that folks of any faith could sign on; their talking points are Rush Limbaugh than any evangelical pulpit.
There may be quite a bit of Joel’s Army in their, but a large hunk of the group would look at you oddly if you tried to label them that, for many of those group don’t have a common theological grounding. They’re too disparate to set up a true theocracy, since they don’t have a common vision of God, just a somewhat common vision of politics.